Every year I get people asking me about my egg-standing technique, which I have honed over years of practice. I decided to make a video tutorial so that you, my BABloggee, can reproduce (haha! get it? It’s an egg!) this experience for yourself.

Hi, Phil:
Think the balance has anything to do with the yolk inside? Perhaps all the maneuvering settles the yolk closer to the bottom of the egg, lowering the center of gravity and making the egg heavier on the downside (I’m assuming you put the wider end down).
Will. M

That is SO cool!!! Thanks for posting that Phil I’m gonna try that tonight. You seem like such a cool guy. Do you believe in that 2012 stuff by the way? Thanks for posting stuff like this Phil it’s really neat!

AJ Hawks says: “I was sure you were just spinning them in the pictures to get them to stand. That’s much easier, but is indeed cheating. Just set an egg down as you normally would, and then spin it nice and fast. It will stand itself up on the thick end on its own.”

Ge, thanks Phil, you’ve just given me my lesson plan for Earth Science tomorrow. It’s the last day before Spring Break where I teach, and I just gave a test today (to avoid doing anything heavy on the last day before break.)

So I’ll show your video, give the kids eggs to balance, and make them come up with a scientific experiment to see if the equinox really has anything to do with it.

Thanks so much for reminding me of the egg thing, Phil. I’d totally forgotten that my dad used to tell us kids about the egg-balancing-on-the-vernal-equinox thing, and we totally believed him. Since becoming an adult, and actually thinking about what the vernal equinox is, and what’s going on, i’ve known this was bogus. But, I thank you for reminding me of some great childhood memories.

In dedication, I balanced a couple eggs tonight as well. Funnily enough, I used the same method as you did in your video above. Any other way never even crossed my mind. The fact that someone would try to balance an egg with one finger on top just seems retarded.

Phil, I’m confused. My calendar says that the Vernal Equinox is 12:48am on March 20th. I remember that the first days of spring, summer, fall, and winter usually fall on the 20th-22nd of the months they are on. I have never seen a first day of falling on day before the 20th or after the 22nd.

Is my calendar incorrect here? Is there a site that shows the absolute correct times and dates for these events? I’m just checking here.

Sorry, I was distracted by my wife when I heard you state the date and didn’t notice that you had the actual time and date written in the post. ( I was watching the YouTube video. I see that you have the exact time and date that I do. For some reason I thought I heard you say the 18th.

I find the concretions make it a little MORE difficult to get the eggs to stand up….for me, they’ve oftentimes been too varied in their size and positioning that it makes it way more tricky. I perfer the smooth eggs for balancing, myself.

Good Morning I have always tried to balance the egg on Equinox without success. This morning at 5:55 am CT I took an egg and after only a few tries I removed my hand and the egg stood on its own!It was a smooth formica surface. It stood there for a good 20 minutes. After I knocked it over I checked it, no egg white leak or countertop imperfections. I felt like I just discovered gravity! I happened apon this site later and watched the video, well I took less time to balance mine (! smile) and used just one hand but I just had to comment! Very exciting after all these years. Thanks for the video but I’m sure Equinox had something to do with it and maybe Leap Year, ok maybe not!!!

Saw a guy on youtube… He claims that there’s a 5 days window around the equinox. On any other day , it “doesn’t feel the same” and he claims you can only balance it on non-equinox days because of the bumps.

“Is it possible to stand an egg on the small end? Even marginally theoretically possible?”

One of my students was so good at it, he was able to balance several eggs on their small ends. One was left on the table for the entire day. I took it down only because I didn’t want to come back into my classroom after spring break with a rotten egg smell permeating the room.